High on my list of neglected tech. projects is the Testament books to prisoners database web application.Â This is the database program that projects like the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project use to track packages sent and returned and books requested in the hopes avoiding delays in delivering books to incarcerated people and to provide […]

As part of my work at the Center for Research Libraries, I am investigating different Constituent Resource Management (CRM) systems.Â One of the options is CiviCRM, a popular FLOSS CRM.Â As CRL is, in large part, a membership organization, I wanted to see if it was possible to represent the basic information that we keep […]

As the start of my graduate program grows nearer.Â I feel like I need to talk and think about what I want to do with journalism more concretely.Â Last night in conversation, I mentioned that I was interested in exploring how the web and other new media could tell stories outside of the linear narrative […]

I’ve been reading Suburban Nation (thanks Sherri) and it made me look at new media ecologies with a city planning eye.Â I wonder, is the web suburban?Â Do we have memorable, open commons or digital cul-de-sacs?Â Certainly, many government sites like the Illinois Tollway site quickly feel like I’m getting lost or running into dead […]

This is a first draft of an op-ed for a group called ManUp! that I’m working with in Bloomington.Â I’d appreciate any comments or feedback: April, sexual assault awareness month makes me tired.Â I am tired of seeing women that I respect and care about exhausted as they do the challenging, important, but also extremely […]

This is a letter to the editor that I just submitted in response to an editorial in today’s H-T, Graffiti not art; it is vandalism: I was disappointed by today’s editorial condemning graffiti.Â Rather than fostering a nuanced and frank dialog about complicated issues like the state of public and private spaces in Bloomington, the […]

Friends! I’m working on the How-To Track of the Allied Media Conference this year. There are already a lot of exciting things in the works for it.Â Â I’ve been working on a hands-on project to refurbish and build media workstations using Free/Libre/Open Source software during the conference.Â I’ve also been talking about developing a session […]

Act at http://capwiz.com/advofy/utr/2/?a=12162006&i=92217564&c= This is what I wrote: I am very concerned about the safety, health, and happiness of youth in Indiana and across the nation.Â So, I am writing to ask you to end funding for ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs including: * Title V Abstinence Education program, Section 510 of the Social Security Act […]

Last summer at the AMC, I presented a session about Web 2.0 and social movements.Â Because I inherited the session from someone else, I kept the session proposer’s rubric of introducing technologies/services by nameÂ (Twitter, Jott, del.icio.us) so that people would be able to link the name/buzz with an idea of what it could do.Â […]

The Allied Media Conference just released their website for the 2009 conference and opened up their session proposals.Â If you have a great idea for a session for the 2009 conference, you can share it on their Submit Sessions page.